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Vt. Irene recovery officer leaving post
Dave Rapaport stepping down
MONTPELIER, Vt. —
Vermont's Irene recovery officer is leaving his job next month to take a private sector job in Minnesota.
Secretary of Administration Jeb Spaulding said Friday that Dave Rapaport is stepping down on April 5.
Ben Rose, the head of the state's new recovery and mitigation division, will take over Rapaport's responsibilities.
Spaulding says the state remains committed to completing Vermont's recovery from Irene. He says moving the responsibilities of the Irene recovery office over to the recently reorganized Department of Emergency Management and Homeland Security makes a lot of sense at this time.
Rapaport became the Irene recovery officer in January after Sue Minter returned to her post as deputy secretary of the Agency of Transportation.


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So there's a big discussion going on about if the photos of dead bin Laden should be released (and for those curious about his full name, read this). The White House says it won't happen. People in Congress have seen them. Other people have seen them. I'm giving it no later than November before they leak.
I do think, for the record, that we should be allowed to see them. First, we have a right to. It's a free society and a democracy and we have the right to see what our government has done in our name. I suppose these could be classified, but there's no real reason they should be. Second, frankly we paid good money for this outcome. We've spent a couple trillion dollars we didn't really have to fight the war in Afghanistan and the one in Iraq. We deserve to be allowed to see how our money was spent.
On a side note, I learned today that apparently the SEAL team that did the attack was beamed down from a Starfleet vessel and presumably used phasers and bat'leths to get the job done.


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"Hydropower Breakout Session"
Kay, J.E., J.H. Casola, and A.K. Snover. 2005. "Hydropower Breakout Session". Fact sheet prepared for King County (Washington)'s October 27, 2005 climate change conference "The Future Ain't What It Used to Be: Preparing for Climate Disruption". Climate Impacts Group, Center for Science in the Earth System, Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean, University of Washington, Seattle.
This fact sheet was prepared for the hydropower breakout session at King County (Washington)'s October 27, 2005 climate change meeting titled "The Future Ain't What It Used to Be: Planning for Climate Disruption". The fact sheet provides a summary of projected climate change impacts on hydropower operations, case studies, and possible strategies for adapting to climate change.
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The world doesn't suffer from a lack of knitblogs, but I was suddenly overcome with a powerful urge to update, so here are a few things I've done since we last saw each other:
1. Packed up my family and moved to take a new job in January. Pros: a kickass LYS 5 minutes from work. Cons: packing and moving all your stuff is the pits.
2. We actually moved twice because we bought a house much sooner than planned (where I have strategically stashed yarn on every floor). All I have to say about moving twice is that if you don't love something, get rid of it – you will hate having to repack it.
3. There were great losses, of knitting friends, and dogs I loved. You guys, the summer of 2011 was so terrible I kind of stopped talking about what was happening because it sounded unbelievable, like a bad country song. Sometimes it has to be enough to carry some of the things you love most in your heart.
4. I love my job. Pro: Isn't that great? Con: it cuts into my knitting time, so production has dropped significantly. I knit 1500 yards in 2012, more or less. Let that sink in for a minute, and you realize that even my small stash gives me enough yarn to knit for 15 years at that rate. Yipes.
5. On the bright side, all this hullabaloo makes it easy to go more than a year without buying yarn. I last bought yarn on November 30, 2011. Because I have a rule about knitting posts with no pictures of knitting, this hat was probably my favorite thing I made in 2012. I've had the remnants of this yarn since 2003, when I made this hat (still in use, by the way).
6. I have a plan: knit simpler things that are just as beautiful, use less sock-weight yarn, and continue to bust that stash. I'm spectating at the Deep Stash KAL in the Doubleknit group on Ravelry, as well as the Use it or Lose it KAL in the Stash and Burn group. Usually, committing to do a knitting thing is the kiss of death for me, so by not publicly committing…I'm using reverse psychology on myself. Not bad, huh?


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As expected, the HTC Desire C is now available in the UK and will soon make its way to other countries across Europe. The HTC Desire C is the latest budget-friendly Android 4.0 handset from HTC. When you say budget-friendly, we're talking about a free phone paired with a £13 (roughly $20) monthly contract which gives you 100 minutes, 5,000 texts and 250MB of monthly data. Anyone looking to buy the HTC Desire C off-contract can find it at T-Mobile and Orange for £169 while Three is looking to beat its competition by offing the handset for £149.
The HTC Desire C runs on Android 4.0 with HTC Sense 4.0 and features a 3.5-inch HVGA (320 x 480) display, 600 MHz Qualcomm processor, 512 MB of RAM, 4 GB of internal storage, microSD card slot, 5 megapixel camera, Beats Audio, and a 1,230 mAh battery. From what we can tell, the handset available from Orange, T-Mobile and Three is the standard model, but you will soon be able to purchase an NFC-enabled version of the Desire C for a slight premium.
Besides its looks, the HTC Desire C does not have anything in common with HTC's flagship devices, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. The HTC Wildfire and Wildfire S were very popular phones in Europe because of the value they offered and we'd expect the Desire C to at least live up to its predecessors' successes.
Would you ever consider buying a device like the HTC Desire C as a starter phone for a family member or would you rather get them a used flagship phone from a year ago for around the same price?


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"Seth's Law" Proposed to Make a Safer School Environment
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Assemblymember Ammiano and LGBT Equality Organizations Co-Sponsor AB 9
March 14, 2011 - Today, California Assemblymember Tom Ammiano will introduce a comprehensive bill that tackles school bullying by providing California schools with specific tools to prevent and address the pervasive problem in order to create a safe school environment for all students.
AB 9, also known as "Seth's Law," would ensure that every school in California implements updated anti-harassment and anti-discrimination policies and programs that include actual or perceived sexual orientation and gender identity and expression, as well as race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, disability, and religion. It would also empower students and parents to know what their rights are, and how to advocate for them.
AB 9 is named "Seth's Law" in memory of Seth Walsh, a 13 year-old gay student from Tehachapi, California, who took his own life in September 2010 after facing years of relentless anti-gay harassment at school that school officials effectively ignored.
Schools often do not have the tools or knowledge to adequately protect lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) students and others from bullying, which remains a serious issue across California and the rest of the nation. Students, parents, and school employees often don't know what the rules are or what to do if bullying occurs.
"As a former teacher, I know how important it is for our students to feel safe at school. Each day throughout California, LGBT youth experience harassment. I am proud to introduce this bill in honor of Seth Walsh, which will give schools the necessary tools to prevent any young person from being bullied, harassed or worse because of their sexual orientation or gender identity and expression," said Assemblymember Tom Ammiano.
"Seth was a wonderful, loving child, and I loved him for who he was. I can't bring my son back. But schools can make a difference today by taking bullying seriously when students and parents tell them about it. It's time for change. We have to create better schools for everyone," said Wendy Walsh.
The bill is co-sponsored by a coalition of organizations advancing LGBT equality and justice – including the ACLU's California Affiliates, Equality California, the National Center for Lesbian Rights, and Gay-Straight Alliance Network.
"Bullying can have serious and tragic consequences, particularly for students who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender," said Carolyn Laub, Executive Director of the Gay-Straight Alliance Network. "We must take pro-active steps to ensure that California's schools are safe for every student. Seth's Law will help schools protect students, and prevent and respond to bullying before a tragedy occurs."
"Public schools have tremendous power and responsibility to protect students from bullying and harassment," said Elizabeth Gill, Staff Attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union. "Better school procedures and policies to prevent and address bullying will make a safer environment for students who are suffering, and can even save lives."
"Everyday in California, many students go to school fearful of another day of harassment and intimidation with no hope of a better tomorrow," said Geoff Kors, executive director of Equality California. "Seth's Law will give all students the tools to seek the help they need to keep them safe and make sure that educators combat bullying in our schools."
In a recent national survey, nine out of 10 LGBT students reported being harassed at school. The problem persists in California as well, with LGBT students reporting significant harassment. The California Safe Schools Coalition reported in 2010 that 42% of California students who identify as lesbian, gay or bisexual and 62% who identify as transgender reported being harassed at least once based on gender non-conformity.
What's more, young people often face bullying and harassment based on what their peers perceive to be their sexual orientation, regardless of whether they identify as being LGBT. According to the most recent California Healthy Kids Survey 12% of 7th graders and 10% of 9th graders reported being harassed based on their actual or perceived sexual orientation.
The consequences of bullying and harassment can include falling grades, depression, and risk of suicide. LGBT youth are three times as likely to seriously consider suicide as heterosexual youth.
"No child should fear going to school, and yet that is the daily reality for thousands of California students who face relentless harassment and bullying," said National Center for Lesbian Rights Executive Director Kate Kendell. "It's our responsibility to make sure schools are taking active steps to address this problem and using the tools that we know will work to create true change. It is not enough to punish students who bully. We must create a school-wide culture of inclusion and respect for difference."
Under Seth's Law, every school district in the state would:
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The American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California (ACLU-NC) is the largest affiliate of the ACLU a nationwide, nonpartisan organization with more than 550,000 members dedicated to the defense and promotion of the guarantees of individual liberty secured by state and federal Constitutions and civil rights statutes. www.ACLUNC.org
Equality California is the largest statewide lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rights advocacy organization in California. Over the past decade, Equality California has strategically moved California from a state with extremely limited legal protections for LGBT individuals to a state with some of the most comprehensive civil rights protections in the nation. Equality California has passed more than 70 pieces of legislation and continues to advance equality through legislative advocacy, electoral work, public education and community empowerment. www.EQCA.org
Gay-Straight Alliance Network (GSA Network) is a national youth leadership organization that empowers youth activists to fight homophobia and transphobia in schools by training student leaders and supporting student-led Gay-Straight Alliance clubs throughout the country. In California alone, we have brought GSA clubs to 53% of public high schools, impacting more than 1.1 million students at 850 schools. GSA Network's youth advocates have played a key role in changing laws and policies that impact youth at the local and state level. GSA Network is also the founder of the Make It Better Project, which aims to stop bullying and prevent suicide. www.gsanetwork.org
The National Center for Lesbian Rights is a national legal organization committed to advancing the human and civil rights of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community through litigation, public policy advocacy, and public education. www.NCLRrights.org


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Founded in 2001, the Master of Science in Computing program quickly established and continues to maintain an outstanding track record of enabling students who were non-computer science undergraduates to enjoy strong computing careers.
Computing technology has evolved and become pervasive. A need has arisen to provide depth and breadth of knowledge about computer science and the management of technology to practicing professionals. The Computing program has answered the need. Practicing professionals use the program to broaden their scope of understanding, to establish their credentials, and to enable them to successfully handle the issues of emerging technology in their jobs. They have come to realize that technology does not stand still and if they rely only on their experiences, they could easily be left behind or pigeon-holed and limited in their options.
Specializations have required courses that cover the specific elements of theory and practice related to a knowledge area. Upon graduation, the specializations are featured in your transcript. A career focus is more flexible. Students choose from a wide variety of courses related to a knowledge area. There is no designation of your career focus on the diploma; a career focus is a guide for the selection of courses leading to a career path or goal. We offer two specializations and your choice of career focus.
Leaders throughout the computing industry are seeking professionals who not only understand the technology but who can act as innovators and advocates. If you are relying on knowledge of what you have been doing it is difficult to be innovative. Breadth and depth of knowledge foster leadership through the identification of creative opportunities and the confidence to pursue them. Our courses are designed to foster skills in the presentation of ideas. In many courses, open ended discussion topics are included in case studies to enhance advocacy skills.
Have you through circumstances of assignment and aptitude become deeply involved in computing technology? Have you discovered a passion to know more about computing? Do you feel the need to bolster your understanding of your specialization or other areas of computing? Are computer advances revolutionizing your field? Are you wondering how to adapt to the trends you see around you?
We provide a broad and sound foundation in computer science, exposure to the latest thinking on the management of the technology, and knowledge sharing and networking opportunities for current students and alumni. A substantial and broad exposure to the fundamentals of computing technology can enhance personal and career growth. It can help you to keep your organization on track with technology advances. Knowledge of successful practices for managing computer technology can help you conduct current operations or prepare you to move into jobs with substantial responsibility in the computing field. In our program you will be exposed to a forum to debate the latest topics in the technology. You will become part of a cohort of students and a network of alums who understand the importance of knowledge sharing and advancement. You will have access to faculty with strong business experience and leading-edge research interests.
The curriculum has been designed to allow part-time graduate work for students engaged in full-time employment by continuing to schedule most graduate level courses in the evening. Recently, we have augmented the flexibility of the program with distance learning, online, and hybrid class formats. While intended to accommodate these part-time students, the program is entirely suitable for full-time graduate students. Rather than an advanced degree program studying only computer science, this is a high quality, professional degree program, with the primary aim of preparing students to be successful in pursuing long-term careers in the computing field.


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Taunting and trash-talking are a regular part of the culture for online video gamers. Opponents tease and threaten each other to complement the violent clashes between the game avatars.
In a piece for The New York Times, reporter Amy O'Leary describes a series of incidents with female gamers over the past six months that have sparked a debate about sexual harassment in the online gaming community.
"You're starting to see the first kind of glimmers of call for change from gamers, some movement from some game manufacturers and certainly an increasing awareness among gamers themselves that this is a problem that needs to come out from the dark of anonymous play," O'Leary tells NPR's Tom Gjelten.
One particularly disturbing incident happened earlier this year when Miranda Pakozdi, a regular competitive gamer, entered the Cross Assault video game tournament. During the six-day fighting competition, her team's coach badgered her with questions about her boyfriend and her bra size, and trained the tournament's Web camera on parts of her body.
"Eventually," says O'Leary, "she found this so difficult to deal with that she committed kind of virtual suicide and forfeited the tournament by walking straight into a competing player so she'd be killed off."
Far more of these incidents happen with texting or voice chat, with players who aren't in the room. Players can use microphone headsets to communicate with anyone else who may be playing.
O'Leary explains that before the introduction of voice chat into online gaming systems, many women would use avatars or screen names that wouldn't give away their gender. Voice chat, which can make gaming more fun and interactive, takes away that opportunity for disguise and can make women targets for harassment right away.
"So, some women either don't use voice chat altogether and miss out on those features of gaming, or they find that these communities can be too hostile for them, and they stop playing in those communities altogether."
Some gaming systems in the $25-billion-a-year industry now incorporate reporting tools so that players can report abuse. "Many gamers say that they feel like it's kind of like that crosswalk button," says O'Leary. "You hit it when you're trying to cross the street. They feel like they hit this report button, and it's just there to make them feel better and not really to do anything."
Some in the industry are calling for the development of automatic muting systems, where gamers who are muted by other players at frequent rates would no longer be able to voice chat.
While awareness about harassment is growing, there are some female players who are unfazed. "There are many women who've been gaming for a long time who just kind of let all this roll off their back," says O'Leary.
"One of the things that is left out of that conversation is that there are women who really are truly uncomfortable with this. And if they're new to gaming, they may not know how to find communities or the kinds of games that are a little bit friendlier. And they may find themselves turned off from gaming altogether."
Many online video games today give players the option of texting and talking to each other. It makes gaming more social and interactive. But for female gamers, it may bring harassment, sexual threats, taunts and come-ons. A series of incidents this year have sparked a discussion in the online gaming community about sexual harassment - real, not virtual. New York Times reporter Amy O'Leary wrote about the problem this week. With more women playing video games online, there's a growing debate over the gaming culture, who owns that culture and whether it needs to change. Amy O'Leary joins us in a moment.
Female gamers, have you been harassed? Call us at 800-989-8255. Our email address is email@example.com. And you can join the conversation at our website. Go to npr.org, and click on TALK OF THE NATION. Amy O'Leary joins us now from our bureau in New York. Welcome to the program, Amy.
AMY O'LEARY: Thank you so much for having me, Tom. It's a pleasure to be with you.
GJELTEN: So are you a gamer yourself?
O'LEARY: Not for a long time. I think the last time I was playing games, I was probably 12 or 13 years old.
GJELTEN: Back in the Pac-Man days, I guess.
O'LEARY: Oh, even a little, you know, Nintendo. I bought my own Nintendo when I was 12.
GJELTEN: But female - women are playing more video games. Women are making up a bigger section of game players these days, huh?
O'LEARY: That's absolutely right. And while there's some debate around the numbers, you know, in all segments of gaming, people who are active video game players, you know, report more women at places like conferences and at tournaments and online.
GJELTEN: And, you know, one of the things that was interesting to me about this is that along with online video game playing, there's a whole world of communication between the players. Can you explain what that experience is like and what kind of communication is going on here?
O'LEARY: Absolutely. One of the things that has really changed how online gaming has worked is - in the last 10 years is the introduction of voice chat. So if a player sits down to play an online game with lots of other people, they put on a headset and a microphone, and they can start talking to anyone else they might be playing with. Now this can be great because it can add a lot of fun to a game. People can plan strategies together. But sometimes, you know, women who get on with voice chat find that the minute that their voice sort of reveals their gender, they then become targets for harassment or come-ons or threats or taunts strictly because they're female.
GJELTEN: Yeah, because otherwise, if they just went with a screen name, they could sort of keep their gender secret.
O'LEARY: And a lot of women do that. They will choose avatars and screen names that don't give away the fact that they might be a female player. But, you know, voice chat is one of those areas where you can't really hide your gender. And so some women either don't use voice chat altogether and miss out on those features of gaming, or they find that these communities can be too hostile for them and they stop playing in those communities altogether.
GJELTEN: But it's not just voice chat, is it? I mean, one of the women that you mentioned and the first woman that you mentioned in your piece was actually competing in person with teammates in a video game tournament. So she had her fellow players right around her in the room.
O'LEARY: Yes. This is a fairly disturbing incident for most people who've seen the video of it. But there's a woman, a regular competitive gamer, Miranda Pakozdi, who was playing in a fighting game video tournament where two characters battle it out with each other. And what happened to her over the course of six days at this tournament was her own coach began asking her questions about things like her bra size and her boyfriend. He threatened to smell her on camera and eventually did. And he trained the tournament's Web camera on parts of her body. Eventually, she found this so difficult to deal with that she committed kind of virtual suicide and forfeited the tournament by walking straight into a competing player so she'd be killed off.
GJELTEN: And the whole point of your piece is that these are less and less isolated incidents. You've identified a series of incidents that all reflect, in one way or another, sexual harassment of female gamers.
O'LEARY: Yes. And it's not to say that, you know, harassment in gaming and trash-talk in gaming has certainly been something that's been around for years. That's not new. But what we've started to see over the last six months is that - really beginning with that tournament I just described to you, there's been an increase in the public conversation around what this means for the gaming community. And you're starting to see the first kind of glimmers of call for change from gamers, some movement from some game manufacturers and certainly an increasing awareness among gamers themselves that this is a problem that needs to come out from the dark of anonymous play and to be something that's really dealt with as a serious issue.
GJELTEN: What's the culture, Amy, of game players? Do they, you know, is it a kind of subculture?
O'LEARY: Well, you know, gaming has really become a true mass medium. And I think it would be difficult to say there's any one culture for video games. There are wide variety of genres, each with their own kind of practices and rules and regulations. And so, you know, it's difficult to say there's just one kind of culture.
But the women I talked to who play games and experience harassment online say that the more difficult and aggressive communities where they feel the least welcome tend to be the most competitive games and the games that are most aggressive and violent in of themselves. So things like fighting games or first-person shooter games that's where more of it is experienced than, say, in a strategy game where there's less kind of aggressive competitive activity.
GJELTEN: Well, one of the big questions we have here is how prevalent this experience of harassment is for women who do play games. And Victoria is on the line now from Cincinnati, Ohio. Thanks for calling us, Victoria. What's your experience?
VICTORIA: I completely agree with everything that, you know, your guest has been saying. My husband and I play a lot of video games together, and I've actually gotten to the point where I don't use the headset unless I'm, like, in a private chat because it's just - it just becomes this disgusting, like the things that the guys say. Like one say, oh, my God. It's a girl that's talking. I just become a target, and it's just really disappointing because normally, you're playing with, like, younger 18-year-old guys. And it's just appalling. It's just out of control I think.
GJELTEN: And, Victoria, do you think it's mostly the younger men that are guilty of this?
VICTORIA: You know, no. I would say across the board, it's everyone. It's older gentlemen's voices, and it's younger voices. It's just all the time. Like as soon as put your headset and you try to talk, and you're not even trash-talking, you're just, you know, I'm going to get this, or I'm doing this and trying to be a teammate, it's, oh, it's a girl. And it's just out of control, and I'm really glad that there's a conversation about it.
GJELTEN: Well, thank you for calling us, Victoria, and sharing your own experience with harassment online. Amy, are there a lot of - I mean, you've found that this is actually - there are many incidents like this. Can you describe some of the other ones?
O'LEARY: Well, there's really two categories of incidents. Part of what's gotten this conversation going is there have been public incidents with that have occurred online where everyone can see them, and so that's things like this tournament that I was describing before where there's real video where you can really put a face and a name to what that harassment looks like.
But the real - the much more common story for women gaming is when they go online and experience it privately. There is a really interesting blog called Fat, Ugly or Slutty, which women gamers have put together themselves to - where every time they receive a threatening message or a come on, they record it either in audio, or they screen-shot the message, and they put it all on this blog to catalog the kinds of regular kind of micro aggressions that accumulate for women gamers that lead some to stop gaming altogether.
GJELTEN: And was this the Kickstarter project?
O'LEARY: Well, that's a separate incident, and this is the one that got the most attention. So a woman - a feminist media critic, Anita Sarkeesian, she launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise $6,000 for a series of videos that would explore how women are portrayed in video games. Immediately, though, she received a torrent of hate-filled messages on her Facebook page, on her YouTube page, and it got pretty aggressive.
And what was so unusual about Anita was she took the step of documenting this harassment, recording it and putting it back online, which did two things. One, her supporters ended up raising - donating more than $150,000 beyond what she asked for to support her when she faced this harassment, but then another wave of really aggressive, you know, violent personal threats, her accounts attempted to be hacked.
And one man in Ontario took the step of making an online video game where you could punch Anita's image on the screen. And if you punched it multiple times, bruises and cuts would appear on her image. And that's a pretty shocking thing for people to see, that that's the level of kind of hatred and response that's out there.
GJELTEN: That's really horrifying. Are there any tools that are being built into these games so that women can report abuse or anyone who feels that they're being abused online? And what happens if somebody is reported?
O'LEARY: Well, there are certainly reporting tools in place today, but many gamers say that they feel like it's kind of, like, that crosswalk button. You hit it when you're trying to cross the street. They feel like they hit this report button, and it's just there to make them feel better and not really to do anything. But I talk to a man named Stephen Toulouse, who was the former head of enforcement at Microsoft for Xbox LIVE, which is the biggest online gaming community, and he said that that report button really does a make difference. And so first of all, gamers should understand the tools they have to control their experience. They can mute players who are aggressive. They should report players who are aggressive.
But right now, you're seeing yet another call from people in the industry who are looking for gaming companies to do more. They want to see a couple of different changes, and one of those would include automatically muting offenders. So let's say out of the, you know, one player gets muted on voice chat more than 10 percent above the norm, these advocates would like to see the gaming companies start that player off muted. That they don't actually get a megaphone to broadcast their hate speech and that only people who are friends with them can hear what they have to say. So that's one idea.
There are few others, but they basically are trying - the advocates behind additional change want to see more limits on messaging and that people have to earn the right to send messages or use the chat features, and then to see more kind of peer pressure to almost give groups of gamers scores that will reflect, you know, how comfortable and kind of safe and supportive their group of players is.
GJELTEN: Amy O'Leary is a New York Times reporter. And her article this week in The New York Times is "In Virtual Play, Sex Harassment is All Too Real." You're listening to TALK OF THE NATION from NPR News. And let's go now to Jenna(ph), who's on the line from Raleigh, North Carolina. Good afternoon, Jenna. Thanks for calling TALK OF THE NATION. You're on the air.
JENNA: Thank you so much for having me. I'm really thrilled to hear that you're talking about this subject. It is a big problem in the game community. But I just wanted to point out not only is it a problem with men, it's also a problem with some women as well. A lot of times, when you end up gaming with other women, there's instances where, you know, they start to attack you, saying like you're only doing this for attention or you don't have enough cred to be playing this game. So it - I feel like it goes both ways. Yes, there is a big problem with men, but there's also problem with women in the community as well.
GJELTEN: Have you heard any of that, Amy?
O'LEARY: I have. You know, it certainly seems like there's a larger proportion of those kinds of statements that come from men. But there are - certainly, women have mentioned that, you know, in general, when you've got large anonymous communities where everyone's in a competitive environment, it's just this extension of kind of the trash-talking culture which can get quite personal. And it's sometimes really aggressive.
GJELTEN: Well, thanks for the call, Jenna. And let's go now Edwina(ph), who's on the line from Cincinnati, Ohio. Good afternoon, Edwina. Thanks for calling us.
EDWINA: Good afternoon. Thanks for having me.
GJELTEN: And your experience, are you a gamer?
EDWINA: Yes, I am a gamer. I do game online. I do agree with the last caller, it goes both ways. It's with the men and the women. However, there can be guys that when you do go online and they do hear a voice are overexcited or they make comments because they hear your voice, but that's not the overwhelming or overall response that I get. And I get a lot with guys, but I generally don't have any problem with them. Either I feel they're (unintelligible) respectful or I just won't talk to them. Of if I'm in a game where I don't have to play with them, if they're not respectful, I can always go find other people to play with who will be respectful. So that's only what I do.
GJELTEN: And do you use that report button that Amy was referring to?
EDWINA: No, I don't because I do have a respect for people's free speech, but I know I don't have to stay there and I tolerate it. So I don't see a need to report them. I just leave if I feel there's something I'm not comfortable with, but I rarely come across that.
GJELTEN: You rarely come across it. So you...
EDWINA: Yes.
GJELTEN: By and large, your experience is OK, but you have experienced some harassment, but then you just leave it.
EDWINA: Yeah, if it's an issue for me. But normally, it's not in - and normally, I play first-person shooters or role-playing games so normally I play with a lot of guys, but I don't generally come across that problem.
GJELTEN: All right. Well, thank you very much, Edwina. I'm sure, Amy, that women vary a lot in their response to this and their level of tolerance.
O'LEARY: It's true. You know, there are many women who've been gaming for a long time who just kind of let all this roll off their back and say, you know what? This is just the Internet. People are nasty and say things nobody wants to hear all the time. But I think, you know, one of the things that is left out of that conversation is that there are women who really are truly uncomfortable with this. And if they're new to gaming, they may not know how to find communities or the kinds of games that are a little bit friendlier. And they may find themselves turned off from gaming altogether.
And I think as the video game industry keeps expanding and keeps increasing its footprint as a real mass medium, you know, it's one of things that you see the community wrestling with.
GJELTEN: Well, gaming industry, boy, that's the right phrase, isn't it? $25 billion a year in the gaming industry. And what's been the response of the gaming industry to these allegations?
O'LEARY: Well, you know, it's interesting because, you know, these are really the actions of individuals. And I don't think, you know, any of the corporate entities that, you know, are involved in gaming, you know, are quick to defend that. You know, we know that Microsoft is taking a serious look at this issue based on a series of - these series of recent incidents and that they're looking at ways to improve their tools right now. We know that there is, you know, an increasing presence of gaming conventions where this is being discussed. There's a panel, actually, at the end of this month at a gaming convention in Seattle called Ending Harassment in Gaming where people are going to examine this issue.
But, you know, it's - everyone who is talking about solutions really believes that solutions are going to come two places: one, the community of gamers who need to stand up against harassing or intolerant behavior, and two, the companies whose job is more provide the tools so the vast communities can police themselves than it is for them to police it on their own.
GJELTEN: Amy O'Leary is a reporter for The New York Times. And I'm sure that your article, Amy, on sexual harassment online is an important one and getting a lot of reaction. You can find a link to it on our website. Go to npr.org and click on TALK OF THE NATION. Amy, thanks for joining us.
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For nearly a decade, Jenna Fischer has played Pam, one of The Office's most recognizably real characters.
If you've ever worked in a clerical position in an alienating office, you'll relate to what Pam goes through. In this interview, Fischer tells Terry Gross about creating all those pained looks and knowing smiles — and about how her five years as an office temp helped to prepare her for the role.
Fischer also costarred in the film comedies Blades of Glory and Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story. And in the new film The Promotion, opening in select cities June 6, Fischer plays a Chicago nurse married to a supermarket assistant manager — who's competing for a promotion to store manager at the chain's newest property.
Fischer tells Terry Gross that she went into the audition "trying to look like a struggling nurse from Chicago" — only to hear later that producers didn't think she had enough Hollywood-style glamour. So she went in for a callback, tarted up in a low-cut blouse, tan body makeup and false eyelashes (courtesy of the hair-and-makeup crew from Blades of Glory). "I looked like a prostitute," she says, but she gave the same performance in that second audition. She got the part.
Glamour isn't all Hollywood execs look for in candidates, she says. Famous faces, blown up larger-than-life-size on movie posters, help sell tickets. Luckily, Fischer says, "The Office has given me a famous face, and I can compete" nowadays in ways that were harder earlier in her career.
Fischer talks to Fresh Air about her abortive career as a member of an all-girl singing group (which turned out to be a front for a high-priced call-girl ring), and about her very first screen role — in a sex-education film made especially for just-released mental-health patients.
This is FRESH AIR. I'm David Bianculli sitting in for Terry Gross. The NBC sitcom, "The Office," concludes next week after an eight-year run. Let's continue our salute to the show with two of its two key supporting actors. In a little while, we'll hear from Rainn Wilson, who plays Dwight Schrute. But first, we'll listen back to a 2008 interview Terry conducted with Jenna Fischer, who plays Pam. She's been with the show from the very start. And when she auditioned for the role of the receptionist she hadn't memorized any lines, she couldn't.
JENNA FISCHER: My very first audition for "The Office," I had to sit in a chair, and the producer interviewed me in character. There was no script. He just said, we want you to act like Pam, or your idea of Pam. And we're going to interview you like a documentary film crew might. And they asked me a lot of questions about - did I like working at a paper company? How long had I lived in Scranton? How did I feel about being filmed by a documentary crew?
And my take on the character of Pam was that she didn't have any media training, so she didn't know how to be a good interview. And also, she didn't care about this interview. And so, I gave very short one-word answers. And I tried very hard not to be funny or clever, because I thought that the comedy would come out of just, you know, the real human reactions to the situation. And it was great. It was great. We clicked quickly. And they liked that take on it.
So, in your one-word answers - like what did you say to the questions you were asked in the audition?
FISCHER: Well, it's funny. The casting director before I went in - I had known her for a few years and she had called me in for other jobs. And she gave me some coaching on the phone. What she said was, don't come in looking pretty; which, you know, a lot of times, when you go in on an audition, they want you to look inappropriately sexy or hot for the role. And I used to get called in to play things like, oh, like, a third-grade schoolteacher but look really hot. And so, in this instance, the - when I went in for "The Office," the casting director said to me, she said, please look normal. Don't make yourself all pretty, and dare to bore me with your audition. Those were her words. Dare to bore me.
She said, please do not come in and do a bunch of shtick and try to be funny and clever, because it's not that kind of show. So, when I went in to the audition, the first question that they asked me in the character of Pam - they said, do you like working as a receptionist? And I said, no. And that was it. I didn't speak anymore than that. And they started laughing.
And then, they asked me a few more questions. My - I mean, my answers were really nothing. They were just yes and no answers. They - and I felt like the comedy would come in watching me think about what I wasn't going to say instead of being what was said.
GROSS: Right. So, when you're giving one of your pained looks or one of your: this is absurd, looks to the camera, who's the camera person? Is there an actor behind there that you can kind of, like, interact with? Or is it just, like, the camera with a camera person?
FISCHER: Well, there's two different scenarios. When we're just shooting the show and it's a scene, the camera operator is this man named Randall Einhorn. And he's our director of photography. And we will look at him, we'll give him the look, or we'll look into the camera at him. And he's become another character or another actor on the show to us. So, we do actually act with him.
And it's really cute - whenever Pam smiles at the camera, Randall can't help but smile back. The man, Randall, smiles at you while he's holding the camera. And there are scenes that we've done that have been really touching. And you'll look at Randall, and he'll be, you know, sort of teared up.
And when we shoot our talking heads - our interview segments - the director of the episode serves as our documentarian for that week. Some of the directors, we have them back again, and again, and again. And one director we're particularly attached to is Ken Kwapis. He directed our very first episode, and he comes back every year and directs a couple of episodes. And last year, he directed the finale. And he's always taken a particular interest in Pam and her journey. So, I feel very close to him.
And in that moment, when Jim burst into the conference room while Pam's giving an interview, and he finally asks her out on a date, I turned to the camera. And in the moment that they used, I'm sort of tearing up. And the reason that I teared up was because when I looked back at the camera, I saw Ken Kwapis. And he - his eyes were full of tears. And he smiled at me and gave me a little wink, like, that's right. You finally got what you wanted, sweetie.
And it just, oh, it was a really powerful moment between me and the director. So it's interesting. There's a lot of acting that happens on the show that is with our crew members or, you know, people - that doesn't normally happen when you're making a movie or a television show.
GROSS: That's really nice. Now, how were you cast opposite John Krasinski? Did you have to do a scene together before you were both cast to make sure that there was chemistry between you? And for anyone who doesn't watch "The Office," I should mention that he's one of the people who works in the office. And you had a long period of flirtation.
FISCHER: But, you know, when "The office" starts, you're engaged to somebody else, and even though things aren't working out between you two, you still feel like, you know, you're involved in this relationship and you can't get involved with the John Krasinski character of Jim. But eventually, you do get together. So, there has to be this chemistry between you. So, were you tested out together during the audition?
Yes. When it came down to the end of the audition process, they took four Pams and four Jims and four Dwights and four Michaels, and they brought us into a real office. And they filmed us with a camera for two days, mixing and matching us. And over the course of that two days, I was mixed and matched with John several times. And after the second day, we were walking out of a scene, and he turned to me and he said, you're my favorite Pam. I hope you get this job.
And I smiled really big, and I said, I'm so glad you said that because you're my favorite Jim, and I don't think anyone could do it except for you. And when they called and told me that I got the job I said, please tell me that John Krasinski is playing Jim. And they said, he is and we're so glad to hear you say that because we thought you two had amazing chemistry. And we're glad you think so, too. So...
GROSS: Are you friends off the set?
FISCHER: We are, yeah. It is the strangest thing to have a long-term fictional love interest. It's a type of relationship that is very intimate, and it's very powerful, but it's fictional. I mean, there is a part of me that is Pam, and there's a part of him that is Jim, and that part of me is in love with that part of him. But in real life, we are just friends.
GROSS: Do you have a favorite example of one of the times when Michael, the Steve Carell character, came up to your desk and did really bad shtick?
FISCHER: Oh, gosh. Well, my favorite Pam-Michael moment from the entire series happens in season one, actually. He comes up to my desk, and he wads up a piece of paper, and he goes to throw it into the trash can behind me, and but instead it hits me in the head. And Pam looks at Michael and she says, please don't throw garbage at me. And I loved that moment because I thought here's a girl who actually has to say to her boss, please don't throw garbage at me. It's like such a known thing, you know?
FISCHER: It's just, like, such a thing that any normal person would know not to do. But I felt like that summed up their entire relationship - that Pam is constantly having to educate Michael on simple human interaction.
BIANCULLI: Jenna Fischer, speaking to Terry Gross in 2008.
Coming up, Rainn Wilson, who plays Dwight. This is FRESH AIR.
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For many, a long drive with a view is a chance to temporarily get away from the hustle and bustle of everyday life. This can be especially true, though difficult to achieve, in a traffic-consumed metropolis like Los Angeles.
Yet beneath its shell of rush-hour gridlocks and construction detours lies a mosaic of cultural landmarks, cinematic history and natural beauty. Whether you crave the invigorating rush of fresh air or the enticing glamour of city lights, LA's best routes offer drivers a true Californian experience.
Angeles Crest Scenic Byway Location: From La Canada-Flintridge to Mountain Top JunctionLength: 66 milesType: InlandTraffic: LowAttractions: Mount Wilson Observatory, Angeles National Forest, vista points
If you're looking for an opportunity to escape the crowd, then a low-traffic drive on Angeles Crest Scenic Byway is for you. Ranging at altitudes more than 7,000 feet, this route boasts amazing views of the Mojave Desert and Pomona Valley, all contained within the San Gabriel Mountains and Angeles National Forest. The secluded location proved to be an ideal filming site for films such as the cult classic "Donnie Darko."
From this mountaintop drive, you can see and even descend down to Pyramid Lake and the east fork of the San Gabriel River — one of the most visited sites in the entire National Forest system — for some fun hiking and water sports.
Along the way, try fishing at Fisherman's Point or go horseback riding near Mount Wilson Observatory. The best part is that the idyllic byway can be accessed near the city (it's less than 10 miles from interstate 15).
Mulholland Drive Location: From Ventura to Santa MonicaDistance: 55 milesType: InlandTraffic: Moderate during rush hours (6 to 9 a.m. and 3 to 7 p.m.) with possible traffic in between; traffic is lowest on SundaysAttractions: Various vista points, Hollywood Hills, Getty Center, Griffith Park
Out of all of Los Angeles' scenic drives, Mulholland Drive is perhaps the most celebrated route in the county. Spanning the foothills of the Santa Monica Mountains, this route is set apart by its spectacular views of Hollywood and the San Fernando Valley. It is also a historic road, named after chief engineer of the pivotal 1913 Los Angeles Aqueduct, William Mulholland.
At the eastern end of Mulholland, drivers can explore Griffith Park — one of the largest municipal parks in the nation and Elysian Park, the oldest and second-largest park in Los Angeles.
With its close proximity to the Hollywood sign and many of the city's urban landmarks, Mulholland Drive has been home to many celebrity estates, including those of Jack Nicholson and Madonna. It has also been featured in numerous songs, films (such as David Lynch's "Mulholland Drive") and tributes, leaving no doubt that Mulholland is one of LA's' most iconic and romanticized drives.
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Pacific Coast HighwayLocation: From Zuma Beach to Manhattan Beach (in Los Angeles County)Length: Approximately 40 milesType: CoastalTraffic: High in the Malibu to Santa Monica stretch during rush hours (6 to 9 a.m. and 3 to 7 p.m.) Attractions: Getty Villa, Santa Monica Pier, Point Dume, beach towns
For the quintessential cruise down the California coastline, Pacific Coast Highway (PCH) the classic choice. It's the Los Angeles constantly seen in movies, posters and magazines around the world: endless Pacific horizon on one side and luxe coastal estates on the other, all with the laid-back charm of sun-bronzed surfers, volleyball players and beach bums to accent the dreamy landscape.
This drive is probably one of the easiest roads to navigate in Los Angeles as well. Spanning the entire West Coast of the United States, PCH is also known as Highway 1. Drivers need only to be concerned with one direction: forward.
Pull over near Malibu to enjoy the cliffs of Point Dume, once a popular clothing-optional destination in the 1960s and '70s. Others might be more interested that Point Dume served as the location of Tony Stark's beachside villa in Marvel's 2008 film "Iron Man" and the setting for the pilot episode of television classic "I Dream of Jeannie".
Further south on the highway, a stretch known as North Sepulveda Boulevard brings drivers even closer to the ocean as it passes through several Southern California beach towns, including Redondo Beach, Hermosa Beach and Manhattan Beach. For a relaxing evening, enjoy a seaside dinner or dessert on the pier at any one of these picturesque beaches.
Palos Verdes Drive Location: From Palos Verdes Estate to San PedroDistance: 14 MilesType: CoastalTraffic: LowAttractions: Point Vicente Lighthouse, Angel's Gate Park, Wayfarers Chapel, vista points
If you're looking for a more unique coastal experience, appreciate breathtaking cliffside views of the Palos Verdes Scenic Drive as you cruise down Palos Verdes Peninsula. Unlike most seaside drives, this route is meant for slow drivers, with a 30 mph speed limit to ensure both safety and appreciation of the immense natural landscape.
Visit the Point Vicente Lighthouse for stunning coastline photos and if you're lucky, a migratory whale sighting. On the way, visit the picturesque Wayfarers Chapel, a popular wedding venue nicknamed "The Glass Church" that was designed by distinguished architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Also worth a stop is the Korean Bell of Friendship located in San Pedro's Angel's Gate Park as part of Fort MacArthur's Upper Reservation.
You can also hike down from the cliffs to the beach shores to scope out artifacts from the historic SS Dominator, a cargo ship that sunk in 1961, or find filming sites for the Disney film series "Pirates of the Caribbean."
Wilshire BoulevardLocation: From downtown Los Angeles to the Pacific Coast HighwayLength: Approximately 16 milesType: CityTraffic: High during rush hours (6 to 9 a.m. and 3 to 7 p.m.) with moderate traffic in between; traffic is lowest after 7 p.m. or on SundaysAttractions: Koreatown, Museum Row, Beverly Hills, UCLA
If you want to learn as much as you can about Los Angeles in one day, then a drive down Wilshire Boulevard is exactly what you're looking for. Traversing numerous distinct neighborhoods, this route is a virtual encyclopedia of the city's diverse cultural roots and architectural evolution.
Beginning downtown, the journey commences with a stunning stretch through LA's tallest skyscrapers. As you continue down the boulevard, you'll drive past the Koreatown and Westlake neighborhoods. Park at Langer's Deli for an authentic taste of the region's Jewish history via a hot pastrami sandwich, declared as the nation's finest by The New Yorker.
Farther down the strip, you'll come across the Miracle Mile — a stretch of Wilshire between Fairfax and Highland that is one of the city's most densely populated areas. This district is also home to a number of museum sites that make up what is known as Museum Row, including the La Brea Tar Pits, Los Angeles County Museum of Arts (LACMA) and the upcoming Academy Museum of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
The end of the boulevard ushers you to the emblematic Pacific Coast Highway. Pull over to soak up some sun, take a quick dip and reflect on an afternoon of mesmerizing Los Angeles sights.


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The Hexatonic Scale is a scale with six notes per octave. Some examples of this scale are the whole Tone scale, Augmented Scale, Prometheus Scale and the Blues Scale. These types of scales are prominent in the Jazz genre of music.
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Arizona's only Tony Awards voter, Colleen Jennings-Roggensack, flew to NYC this morning to enjoy festivities leading up to Sunday's Tony Awards ceremony taking place at the Beacon Theatre with host Neil Patrick Harrris. Jennings-Roggensack is executive director for ASU Gammage in Tempe, which presents touring Broadway productions through "Broadway Across America."
Tuesday was opening night for "Million Dollar Quartet" at ASU Gammage, which blends historical fiction with the music and larger-than-life personalities of Jerry Lee Lewis (Martin Kaye), Carl Perkins (Lee Ferris), Johnny Cash (Derek Keeling) and Elvis Presley (Cody Slaughter). Also Sam Phillips (Christopher Ryan Grant), whose Dec. 4, 1956 gathering at Sun Records in Memphis inspired the work.
Tuesday's audience seemed to favor Cash tunes, but it's Lewis' bad-boy shenanigans that bring this story to life. I was most taken with the show's technical elements and actors' exquisite command of all things movement. Seven of the eight cast members play instruments, so audience members enjoy piano and guitar licks along with riffs on harmonica, bass and drums. Two jumbo speakers on either side of the stage delivered the best sound I've experienced in two decades of Gammage-going.
The 2012/2013 ASU Gammage season opens with "Anything Goes." Folks who watched last year's Tony Awards ceremony saw Tony-winner Sutton Foster and the "Anything Goes" cast sing and tap the show's title number, plus performances from two other shows coming to ASU Gammage next season — "Sister Act" and "Memphis."
I've been taking Lizabeth to ASU Gammage for Broadway shows and other offerings for more than a decade, but now that she attends college in NYC, she also gets to enjoy plenty of shows on Broadway. So far she's seen eight of this year's Tony Award nominees, and I can tell she has a soft spot for "Once" — a musical we hope to enjoy together during my next trip to NYC. "Peter and the Starcatcher" is another one of her favorites, hailed like "Once" for its breathtaking simplicity and storytelling.
This is the eighth year that "Gammage supporters and advocates" are joining Jennings-Roggensack for a special "Broadway Adventure" and the Tony Awards ceremony. While Arizona viewers watch the Tony Awards Sunday night on CBS (click here for details), team Gammage will have some folks inside the Beacon Theatre and others inside the Tony Awards VIP section in Times Square, where the ceremony is being broadcast on the Sony JumboTron.
Other items on the ASU Gammage itinerary include lunching with folks from "The Book of Mormon," getting backstage peeks at Tony-nominated shows, mixing historical perspectives with a walk along the "Great White Way" and meeting with stars, directors and set designers of shows from the current and future ASU Gammage season. Also donning gowns and tuxes for the post-Tony Awards gala at The Plaza Hotel.
"In the wee hours of the morning," says Jennings-Roggensack, "I will slip away to join the casts of the best musical, best play and best revival at their celebratory after-parties." Still, she says "the best part of all this is that we are already planning on these Tony Award-winning shows making their way to the Gammage stage."
— Lynn
Note: Watch for an article about Roggensack and daughter Kelsey in the July 2012 issue of Raising Arizona Kids. Click here for Tony Awards t-shirts and other offerings for folks eager to rock the Tony Awards vibe. And click here to learn about this month's "Million Dollar Quartet" auditions in Las Vegas, L.A. and Austin.
Coming up: Fun with outdoor concerts, Art meets solstice


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